CLEVELAND, OH - Six University at Buffalo student-athletes have been named to the Mid-American Conference's 2003 men's and women's outdoor track and field Academic All-MAC teams, the league has announced. Jenelle Callender (Brooklyn, NY/Brooklyn Tech), Katie Love (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg), Meagan Rogers (Courtenay, BC/George P. Vanier) and Faith Thompson (Niagara Falls, NY/Niagara Falls) were named to the women's team while Joel Beatty (Holley, NY/Holley) and Rick Stewart (West Seneca, NY/West Seneca West) were selected to the men's squad by a vote of the faculty athletic representatives of the member institutions that sponsor outdoor track and field. Due to ties in the voting, each 19-member team was expanded, with 23 men and 24 women honored. The four UB women's honorees were the most placed by any league member.

Jenelle Callender

Callender, a senior international studies major with a 3.318 GPA, finished seventh at the MAC Championships in the 400-meters (57.43). She also ran the opening leg of the record-setting 4x100 relay (47.09) at the league meet. She finished the 2003 season with a top 100-meter time of 12.32 at the Alabama Relays and 200-meter clocking of 24.68 at the UB Chancellor's Cup and was part of three additional relay records. Academically, she also was named the UB Intercollegiate Athletic Board Female Distinguished Student-Athlete Leader in 2003.

Katie Love

Love, a graduate student with a 3.626 GPA in medicine, placed 11th in the heptathlon at the MAC Championships with a career-best 4,209 points. Her point total surpassed the 4,115 she scored to finish 10th at the Penn Relays during the 2003 season. Love capped her career by winning the 800-meter run, the final event of the MAC heptathlon, in 2:21.99.

Meagan Rogers

Rogers, a senior management major with a 3.521 GPA, combined with Love to form UB's top women's multi-event tandem. Rogers took fourth in the MAC's heptathlon with a school-record 4,921 points, bettering her own record of 4,793 points set at the 2002 league championships. She also set the UB javelin record earlier in the season with a throw of 124-1, breaking a mark that had stood since 1988. She finished second to Love in the 800-meter run in the heptathlon in 2:22.61.

Faith Thompson

Thompson, a junior psychology major with a 3.925 GPA, was also named to the league's indoor Academic All-MAC squad earlier in the year. For the outdoor season, she registered top marks in the shot put (school-record 46-8) and hammer throw (179-0) to earn a spot in the NCAA Regional meet in Fairfax, VA on May 30-31 for both events. Thompson placed fifth in the shot put (44-4.75) and hammer throw (179-0) at the MAC Championships.

Joel Beatty

Beatty, a junior biochemistry major with a 3.695 GPA, also earned recognition to the league's indoor Academic All-MAC team in the winter and turned in a perfect 4.0 mark in the fall 2002 semester. The distance runner finished 13th in the MAC Championship's 10,000-meter run in 32:17.25. He also placed 16th in the 5,000-meters in 15:25.03.

Rick Stewart

Stewart, a senior physical therapy major with a 3.834 GPA, completed the sweep after also earning Academic All-MAC honors during the 2002 cross country and the 2002-03 indoor track seasons. Outdoors, he placed 18th in the 5,000-meters (15:26.87) at the MAC Championships after a top time of 14:56.00 at the Alabama Relays in March. He also had a top mark of 9:25.59 in the steeplechase at the Raleigh Relays.

The Academic All-MAC honor is for a student-athlete who has excelled in athletics and academics. To qualify, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA and have participated in at least 50 percent of the contests for that particular sport. First-year students and junior college transfers in their first year of residence are not eligible for the award. Outstanding academic and athletic accomplishments from the current season only are considered.